Wyoming greater sage-grouse proposed land use plan amendment and final environmental impact statement for the Casper, Kemmerer, Newcastle, Pinedale, Rawlins, and Rock Springs Field Offices and Bridger-Teton and Medicine Bow National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office and National Forest System lands administered by the Medicine Bow and Bridger-Teton National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland

Alternate Titles

• Wyoming greater sage-grouse proposed land use plan amendment and final environmental impact statement
• Final EIS
• Wyoming greater sage grouse proposed LUPA
• Wyoming greater sage grouse FEIS

Description

The Wyoming Greater Sage-Grouse Proposed Land Use Plan (LUP) Amendments and Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has been prepared by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (Forest Service) with input from 26 cooperating agencies. This document is considering amendments to six BLM and three Forest Service LUPs to address the management of Greater Sage-Grouse habitat in Wyoming. The final EIS describes and analyzes five alternatives for managing Greater Sage-Grouse habitat on approximately 16 million acres of BLM-administered and National Forest System lands and approximately 23 million acres of BLM-administered subsurface federal mineral estate ... The Proposed LUP Amendments incorporates the guidance from the Washington Office Instruction Memorandum No. 2012-044 (12/27/2011) BLM National Greater Sage-Grouse Land Use Planning Strategy (WO IM No. 2012-044), the Wyoming Governor's Executive Order 2011-5 (WY EO 2011-5), and additional management based on the NTT [Sage-Grouse National Technical Team] recommendations ... Major planning issues addressed include energy and minerals, lands and realty (including rights-of-way), wildfire, vegetation management (including invasive species and conifer encroachment), livestock, grazing, recreation, travel management, and socioeconomics.

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